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This message and those that follow it under the
heading "AT&T Breakup" are slightly edited versions
of messages written by Tom Nicholas #72355,1352
on the Software Author's SIG. They will provide
you with background for Sunday's Conference at 4PM
EDT. In this Tom shares what he learned at a
conference.
First here's the jargon and what it means:
Access Charge - The charge that has been
established by the FCC, via tariffs, for
local operating companies to soften the
loss of toll income. Some local operating
companies would like you to believe that
this charge is for you to have a
connection to AT&T, hence the name.
AT&T - American Telegraph and Telephone.
BOC - Bell Operating Company. Such as Ohio
Bell, New England Bell, Southern Bell.
Those companies in which AT&T had MAJORITY
control, providing local service to a
specific area of the country.
CA - Carrier Access. This refers accessing of
the Local Operating Company's network
by the toll carriers.
CAB - Carrier Access Billing. The charge that
the Local Operating may impose on the
toll carrier for accessing the local
network. This includes charges to AT&T,
MCI, etc. This is to include not only out-
going calls, but incoming also. (I know
that sounds strange, they still haven't
figured a good, inexpensive way to measure
that one, yet.)
CSO - Central Service Organization. A
'temporary' company established to handle
the functions performed by AT&T as a
service to all BOCs when it was one
'happy' family. This included
routing collect/credit card call billing,
as an example.
Independent - An independent telephone company.
It may be as small as a few hundred
customers for local service, or as larg
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